农村第一代已婚独生子女父母养老心态及其影响因素分析

基于2011年江苏、四川两省720户中老年农民调查数据,以同龄的非独生子女父母为参照,对农村第一代已婚独生子女父母的养老心态及其影响因素进行探索性分析。结果表明,在对待自己养老问题的担心上,独生子女父母的担心程度略高于非独生子女父母。而在子女能否赡养、经济上能否支持、生病时能否照顾上,独生子女父母的担心程度均低于非独生子女父母,在年老时是否感到孤独寂寞上,独生子女父母担心程度略高于非独生子女父母。对独生子女父母养老总体心态的多因素方差分析发现,婚姻状况、亲子关系、子女婚后支持变化、居住条件及生活满意度等变量可能是显著影响研究对象养老心态的重要因素。     

第一代农村独生子女父母养老意愿实证分析——兼论农村养老保险的效用

通过对江苏和四川两省810户农村居民入户问卷调查数据分析,重点考察第一代农村独生子女父母与同时代非独生子女父母在养老意愿上的差异。是否参加农村养老保险是影响农村独生子女父母养老意愿的一个重要因素。所有参加养老保险的两类父母,在养老意愿三个维度上不存在显著性差异。而对于未参加养老保险的群体而言,两类父母在养老经济打算、养老担心度上均表现出显著性差异。从农村社会养老保险政策和养老观念转变两个方面,进一步探讨第一代农村独生子女父母如何应对养老。     

第一代独生子女婚后居住方式:一项12城市的调查分析

本文考察了我国第一代独生子女婚后居住方式的分布及其与非独生子女的差别。结果表明,青年婚后小家单独居住的比例高达2/3,成为第一代独生子女婚后居住方式的主流。在与父母同住的青年中,独生子女与双方父母同住的比例相当;而非独生子女则基本上都是与男方父母同住。此外,双独家庭与老年父母同住的比例最小;单独家庭与老年父母、特别是与女方父母同住的比例最大;双非家庭与男方父母同住的比例最大。单独家庭中青年夫妇婚后居住方式明显受到性别因素的影响。论文探讨了这种居住方式的变化对家庭养老以及家庭观念等方面所具有的意义。     

解决独生子女父母年老后养老问题应遵循的原则及对策建议

当前 ,中国第一代 (即指 70年代率先响应计划生育号召的一代 )独生子女父母即将跨入老年。由于其当初的生育选择曾受到生育政策的限制 ,他们的养老问题能否得到妥善处理就成为关系到社会的安定团结及今后人口控制能否顺利实现的关键问题。本文探讨了解决该问题时应遵循的原则 ,在此基础上提出了独生子女父母年老后的养老对策。     

第一代独生子女婚后居住模式——基于江苏省的经验研究

二十世纪七、八十年代出生的第一代独生子女正处在婚育阶段,与此同时,他们的父母也在逐渐步人老年。文章利用2007年江苏生育调查数据,从代际关系角度考察了第一代独生子女的婚后居住模式及影响因素,结果表明：子代需要亲代帮助照料年幼孙代的需求、亲代需要子代提供照料的需求显著提高了独生子女婚后与父母同住的可能性,代际交换关系显著影响了居住模式;与非独生子女家庭相比,独生子女家庭更可能与夫妻一方或双方父母同住;城市独生子女比农村独生子女更可能婚后与父母同住：独生子女的性别属性对居住模式有显著影响,独生子与自己父母同住的比例明显大于独生女同她们的父母同住的比例。     

第一代独生子女父母养老方式的选择与支持研究——以北京市为例

就我国目前的经济发展水平和人民生活水平而言,城市第一代独生子女父母进入老年后首选养老方式仍是居家养老,然而独生子女对家庭养老的支持力度却在降低,特别是在老人的生活照料和精神慰藉方面,如何解决好独生子女父母的养老问题,本文就建立和完善社区服务,政府建立辅助制度以及加强独生子女父母自身养老意识等方面给出了建议。     

关于建立计划生育养老保障机制的思考

我国第一、二代独生子女父母开始步入中老年,计划生育家庭面临养老难题,建立计划生育养老保障机制也呈现的日益重要。本文结合建立计划生育养老保障机制的实践经验,分析了建立养老机制的制约因素,同时就完善计划生育养老机制提出了建议。     

我国第一代独生子女家庭的养老问题研究

我国30多年的计划生育政策产生了数以亿计的独生子女人口,数量庞大的独生子女父母将渐次跨入老龄行列,现实的养老困境和养老风险正在迫近第一代独生子女及其父母和家庭,中国即将迎来独子养老时代。其中,独生子女空巢家庭可能会面临更多、更大的养老问题,尤其是那些独生子女残缺家庭。文章基于现有研究所集中论述的问题做出评述,并就所关心的有关问题做出进一步的探讨。     

农村50岁以上独生子女父母与子女经济互动及养老预期——基于对全国5县调查

根据对全国5县(区)抽样调查,农村50岁以上独生子女老年父母家庭有近6成空巢。尽管这些父母的大多数觉得2个及以上孩子对于养老来说更好,但依靠子女养老和多代同堂观念已大为削弱。这些家庭代际间财富流动以子女对父母反哺为主。6成独生子女父母赞成与子女分开住,即使子女今后搬到城镇住,也有近一半人明确表示不会到子女家住,但他们同时并未显示出对社会养老保障的信任,这种窘境使这些曾为人口控制做出突出贡献的老人面临严峻的养老挑战。     

放飞新希望 爱心护家园

随着第一代独生子女父母进入老年期,独生子女失子家庭养老问题引起了计生部门的高度重视。2008年北京市西城区人口计生委开展了一份《独生子女特殊困难家庭父母养老意愿的调查》,报告显示,许多家庭始终不能走出心理阴影,断绝了与亲戚朋友的一切社会关系,孩子离世多年后的房间仍然保留着孩子过去的样子,他们对生活没有信心,对老年生活充满了担忧。自此,北京市人口计生委开展了对特扶家庭的帮扶活动,每月对特扶家庭的父母给予各200元的生活补贴。     

城市外来人口居住条件对其健康影响之考察——以上海为例

本文利用上海2008年的抽样调查数据,考察了一个特别重要但是长期被忽视的群体——城市外来人口居住条件和健康的问题。通过与本地居民的对比,发现外来人口的身心健康好于本地居民,但在居住条件、尤其是住房条件各方面均表现出对本地居民的明显劣势。回归分析结果说明,控制人口和社会经济变量,居住条件的确是影响城市外来人口健康的重要社会因素之一,但对于不同的健康指标,不同居住条件变量作用的大小和方向有所不同。此外,对居住条件与户籍身份的交互作用分析显示,居住条件对城市外来人口健康的影响总体上弱于对本地居民健康的影响,不同的居住条件变量对城市外来人口与本地居民健康的影响关系有所不同。这一结论将有助于政府部门制定更加适合外来人口的改善居住条件与健康状况的相关政策。     

Purchasing Piety? Coresidence of Married Children With Their Older Parents in Japan

We investigated the conditions under which married children live with their older parents in Japan. We focused on how needs and resources in each generation are associated with whether married couples live with their parents in parent-headed and child-headed households, and we also investigated difference in power relations between older and younger generations and between children and their spouses. We analyzed a nationally representative sample of older parents (n = 3,853) and their married children (n = 8,601) from the 1999 Nihon University Japanese Longitudinal Study of Aging (NUJLSOA). Mutinomial regression revealed that married children with relatively affluent parents tended to live with them in parent-headed households and that married children with parents who are in relatively poor health or who are widowed tended to live with them in child-headed households. We also found that less-educated married children tended to live in the households of their higher-income parents, suggesting that parents may be "purchasing" traditional arrangements with less-affluent children. In addition, children with an educational advantage over their spouses were more likely to have parents living with them in child-headed coresident households. We conclude that traditional multigenerational coresidence has become a commodity negotiated within families based on relative resources and needs within and across generations.     

城市农民工主观生活质量及其影响因素研究——基于上海浦东新区农民工调查数据的分析

本文基于2006年上海浦东新区农民工生活质量调查数据,对农民工的主观生活质量及其影响因素进行了研究。分析结果表明,1/3以上农民工对自己的总体生活质量表示满意;农民工的婚姻状况、月平均收入、居住类型和健康状况因素对其生活质量总体满意度有显著的影响,性别、年龄、受教育程度和居住时间因素对其生活质量总体满意度的影响不显著;通过因子分析得到的"工作和保障满意度"和"生活环境满意度"对农民工的生活质量总体满意度的影响最为显著。     

儿童照料与二孩生育意愿 ——来自上海的证据

本文围绕一项针对上海市育龄女性的生育意愿调查,分别使用二分和有序Logit方法分析儿童照顾对上海市育龄女性的二孩生育意愿的影响。研究发现当育龄女性能够从家庭内和社会中获得更多孩子照料的时间支持时,她们有更高的二孩生育意愿,也会伴有更明确的二孩生育规划;双独家庭能够从父辈获得更多的经济、时间上的帮助,因此他们要比单独家庭和双非家庭更愿意再生一个孩子;居住于上海市城区的女性从某种程度上更易获得孩子的照料资源,有更多的优质教育资源可供选择,因此她们的二孩生育意愿高于居住于郊区的女性。此外,本文通过是否采用了避孕措施对二孩生育的意愿程度做了进一步区分,结果发现当第一个孩子主要是由孩子父母承担照料工作的时候,女性存在二孩生育意愿的程度是最低的,祖辈照料对二孩生育意愿程度的积极影响也明显低于社会性照料,此现象在上海市户籍的女性中体现尤为明显。最后为纠正自选择偏差问题,本文使用倾向值匹配方法(PSM)进一步验证了与首孩性别相比,首孩的抚养成本与接受照料情况显然对二孩生育意愿的影响程度更大。因此,本文认为加大公共托育服务的供给、为育龄女性提供高质量的0-3岁婴幼儿社会照料支持是提高二孩生育意愿的最有效政策。     

已婚独生女相对资源优势与单独居住选择研究——基于苏州市吴中区的调查

第一代独生子女大规模进入婚育年龄,由于此类家庭关系的特殊性,势必对传统的家庭居住方式产生冲击。文章利用2006年苏州市20-29岁育龄妇女家庭户调查资料,建立已婚独生女资源优势变量,通过列联交互表与卡方检验的方法,判断资源优势与独生女单独居住的关联性。研究结果表明：已婚独生女单独居住与其社会资本和文化资本优势呈显著负相关,与其经济资本优势呈正相关。夫妻间资本优势影响家庭权力分配,并影响到居住决策,且社会资本和文化资本优势影响力超过经济资本优势。鉴于此,本文提出“优势一选择”理论予以解释,认为独生女依据自己不同的比较资源优势,依次选择自己意愿的居住方式。     

Exporting Poor Health: The Irish in England

In the twentieth century, the Irish-born population in England has typically been in worse health than both the native population and the Irish population in Ireland, a reversal of the commonly observed healthy migrant effect. Recent birth cohorts living in England and born in Ireland, however, are healthier than the English population. The substantial Irish migrant health penalty arises principally for cohorts born between 1920 and 1960. In this article, we attempt to understand the processes that generated these changing migrant health patterns for Irish migrants to England. Our results suggest a strong role for economic selection in driving the dynamics of health differences between Irish-born migrants and white English populations.     

The Intergenerational Effect and Second Childbirth: Survey Findings from the Shaanxi Province of China

Traditionally, the fertility behaviors of Chinese people have been deeply influenced by the entrenched patriarchal, patrilineal, and patrilocal systems. Women’s fertility decisions and behaviors are significantly influenced by their parents and parents-in-law. Given the current social changes with low fertility levels and intentions in China, it is still unclear about the actual link between the fertility behavior and the intergenerational effect. Therefore, we utilize data from 1577 questionnaires, conducted in 2013 in the Shaanxi Province of northwest China about fertility intentions and behaviors, and use the event history analysis method and the Cox proportional hazard model to explore the association between intergenerational effects and women’s second childbirths. “The number of the parental generation’s children” and “the living arrangements of the parental generation” are employed to measure the intergenerational effect. The findings show that there is an existence of intergenerational transmission of fertility between women of childbearing age and their parents-in-law, rather than their biological parents when considering the effects of their parents-in-law. In addition, the study finds a significant correlation between women’s second childbirth and the living arrangements of their parents-in-law, but no significant association with the living arrangements of their biological parents. These results support that the patriarchal, patrilineal, and patrilocal systems play a role in women’s fertility behaviors in contemporary China.     

The impact of adult child emigration on the mental health of older parents

We explore whether older parents of adult children who emigrate experience, in the short term, increases in depressive symptoms and loneliness feelings compared to parents whose children do not migrate. We use data from the first two waves of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, which is a nationally representative sample of 8500 people aged 50 + living in Ireland. To deal with the endogeneity of migration, we apply fixed-effects estimation models and control for a broad range of life events occurring between the two waves. These include the emigration of a child but also events such as bereavement, onset of disease, retirement and unemployment. We find that depressive symptoms and loneliness feelings increase among the parents of migrant children but that the effect is only present for mothers. As the economic burden of mental health problems is high, our findings have potentially significant impacts for migrant-sending regions and countries.